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CONTEST: “Panopticon as a metaphor of the Internet of Things”, deadline January 31 2012
The use of Bentham’s panopticon in analyses of urban new media is widespread (we’ve done it on this blog here and here). For Foucault the circular prison structure became the emblem of modern institutionalized ‘disciplinary societies’. Despite Deleuze’s observation in ‘Postscript on the Societies of Control‘
CONFERENCE: Home Sense or ‘Dwelling and the Internet of Things’, December 9, Rotterdam
HOME SENSE or ‘Dwelling and the Internet of Things’ http://www.v2.nl/events/one-day-conference-the-internet-of-things What are the consequences and questions for our home-environment in relation to the Internet of Things? This one day conference will bring together a variety of researchers throughout the diverse disciplines. We will present and
New event: Social Cities of Tomorrow, 14 − 17 February 2012, Amsterdam
We are happy to announce a new event: Social Cities of Tomorrow is an international conference that takes place on 17 February 2012, plus an intensive three-day pre-conference workshop on 14 ? 16 February, in Amsterdam Netherlands. Check out the conference website!
WORKSHOP: Pachube “Breathe, Amsterdam”, November 18 2011, Amsterdam
The Amsterdam #IoT community is organizing this workshop, with a focus on air quality data: Where’s the data? Technology has progressed to the point that we as citizens with concerns or interests can leverage open source hardware and software together with cloud platforms like Pachube
LECTURE: Program Your City, November 15 2011, Harvard University, Boston
Marcus Foth is giving a talk about open data and urbanism: Program Your City: Legal and Governance Issues of an Urban Integrated Open Data API Marcus Foth, Queensland University of Technology Tuesday, November 15, 12:30 pm Berkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floor RSVP required
LEZING: The Knight’s Move: Mark Shepard, 27 Oct 2011, Stroom Den Haag.
The Knight’s Move: Mark Shepard http://stroom.nl/activiteiten/lezing_symposium.php?l_id=2472204 Donderdag 27 oktober 2011, 20 uur Locatie: Hogewal 1-9, Den Haag Voertaal: Engels Entreeprijs: € 5,- (overmaken op ING-rekening 605409 van Stroom Den Haag onder vermelding van de naam van de lezing) Reserveren verplicht: zie formulier onderaan deze pagina De Amerikaan Mark
ACADEMIC COURSE
For fall 2011, The Mobile City’s Michiel de Lange developed an academic course called “The Media City” for bachelor 2 and pre-master students at Utrecht University. Martijn de Waal is one of the invited guest lecturers.
WORKSHOP
The Mobile City’s Michiel de Lange participated in the panel “Beyond Locative: Media Arts after the Spatial Turn“, about the future of locative media at ISEA2011 in Istanbul.
PUBLIC LAUNCH
The Mobile City presented the study ’Ownership in the Hybrid City’, on September 14 2011 at PICNIC in Amsterdam. A report in Dutch was published at the Virtueel Platform website.
PUBLICATION
The Mobile City wrote a study titled ‘Ownership in the Hybrid City’ about how digital technologies and e-culture can be used to engage people in complex urban ‘ownership’ issues. For the moment the study is in Dutch only. An international event is planned for February, 2012.
EVENT: Next Nature Power Show, 5 November 2011 19:30-22:00, Amsterdam
Next Nature explores the changing relation between people, nature and technology, and organizes a fourth edition of the Powershow: The Next Nature Power Show is an intellectual spectacle where artists, scientists, designers, filmmakers, politicians and philosophers present their radical ideas, visionary statements and powerful images
EVENT: Play the City! October 14 – 16 2011, Amsterdam
Can citizens and local stakeholders collaborate in designing their urban environment by playing a city game? Our friends at The Resonsive City have developed this into a project called Play the City! After Istanbul, this is now being trialled in Amsterdam Noord under the name Play
CALL for projects: Living Labs Global Award 2012. Deadline 17 Feb. 2012
We received a call for the Living Labs Global Award 2012, which may be of interest to you since many of the categories have something to do with smart uses of technologies: Since 2009, the Living Labs Global Award has worked together with cities in Europe,